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Show MISTOW RAPPED HARD IN SENATE DISCUSSION Extraordinary Power of Fourth Assistant P. M. General Gen-eral May Be Curbed In Pending BUI. , WASHINGTON, April 6. In the Senate Sen-ate yesterday consideration of the post-offlce post-offlce appropriation was resumed and j the transfer of the free delivery vice was again brought up. Mr. Spooner said he was not sure that the time had arrived for the trans-r trans-r of the free delivery service back b the First Assistant Postmaster-General, Postmaster-General, and said it looked like a slap at the man who had been responsible fyTthe transfer. ' 'Jlr. Teller wanted to know whether Mr. Spooner meant that It was a slap at. the Postmaster-GeneraL "I do not," answered Mr. Spooner. "To the Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, Postmaster-General, then?" pursued Mr. Teller. "I am not under cross-examination. said Mr. Spooner, "but I do not mind saying that I mean the Fourth Assistant" Assist-ant" , - ' Mr. Lodge said the -transfer was not meant as a slap at Mr. Brlstow or Mr. Payne, but that he thought it proper to return the department where it originally was. All of the items for transfer of . the free delivery service were then agreed to, with the amendment offered by Mr. Spooner. At the opening of the Senate Mr. Gibson took the floor to speak on his bill to repeal the desert land act and the commutation provision of the homestead act He denied that a railroad lobby is back of the proposition proposi-tion for the repeal of general land laws and refuted the statement that the motive mo-tive tt the men favoring the repeal is to tncrease the value of private holdings. hold-ings. Mr. Gibson read from Hans-brough'a Hans-brough'a speech to the effect that a lobby was back of the deal, and criticised crit-icised Mr. Hansbrough for not naming at least one of the railroads or persons he alleged to be back of the movement for the repeal of the land laws. In the House.' In the House yesterday an attempt to secure consideration, under suspension of the rules, of the bill appropriating $475,000 for the Lewis and Clark centennial centen-nial exposition to be held in Portland, Or., in 1905, failed after the House had divided several times and the roll had been called twice. r' The military academy appropriation bill was taken up and after Mr. Parker, Par-ker, in charge of the bill, had explained its features briefly, Mr. Goldfogle of New York spoke in behalf of the Jews of the United . States, for whom he asked equal treatment and protection while traveling in Russia. Mr. Llvernash of California made an attack on President Roosevelt and Mr. Morrell of Pennsylvania discussed the negro question. Consideration of the bill was not concluded when the House adjourned. . |